Re: bad copyright years

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Should things of the form "1992-2003" be expanded to every member
>     year?
>
> That is an interesting question.  I don't think CC mode was part
> of Emacs during all those years.  When did it become part of Emacs?
> And what copyright years did it have then?

The CVS repository for "cc-mode.el" (from the cc-mode website) shows
that the statements "This file is part of GNU Emacs" and Copyright FSF
were added in 1992.

http://cc-mode.cvs.sourceforge.net/cc-mode/cc-mode/cc-mode.el?r1=2.193&r2=2.194
http://cc-mode.cvs.sourceforge.net/cc-mode/cc-mode/cc-mode.el?r1=2.192&r2=2.193

I also see there that the Copyright years 1992-1998 were all listed
explicitly at one point, then in 1999 got changed to the "compact"
form. So it seems pretty clear they should be put back.


A few other files have "odd" Copyright notices, eg

leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html
leim/quail/CTLau.el
lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el
lisp/language/thai-word.el

Eg who owns the copyright for thai-word.el in 2006? Who has owned
titdic-cnv.el since 2002?